Media Briefings, Online Coverage of Ultima Thule Flyby

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on track to perform the farthest flyby in history, when it zips past a Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule -- more than four billion miles from Earth -- at 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1.

Flyby activities are taking place at the home of New Horizons operations, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. A schedule of events, set for broadcast and streaming on NASA TV and social media channels, is below.

Follow the New Horizons mission on social media and use the hashtags #ultimathule, #ultimaflyby and #askNewHorizons to join the conversation. Live updates will be available on NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory websites and social media channels. For a complete list of programming and outlets:http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Where-to-Watch.php